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Aussie soldier's body found on US mountain

Captain Paul McKay, from Canberra, at the Albany bus terminal on December 30, the day before he was last seen. Photo: Supplied

Australian soldier Captain Paul McKay died on an upstate New York mountain from hypothermia, a coroner has ruled.

A forest ranger located Capt McKay's body near the summit of Scarface Mountain on Wednesday, 150m off a walking trail.

He was covered by a blanket, but did not have the appropriate camping shelter to survive the snow storms and minus 30 degrees Celsius temperatures that struck the north-east of the US in early January.